in a private hospital in the Sydney suburb of Strathfield. On 11 April 1944, The Sydney Morning Herald reported that she was to be cremated at the nearby Rookwood Cemetery Crematorium. In arts, media and entertainment Film The anthology horror film, Dead of Night (1945), included in its five separate stories a section called "Christmas Party" with Sally Ann Howes as Joanna. This story is loosely based on the Constance Kent case; "Christmas Party" was an original screenplay based on an original story by the screenplay author Angus MacPhail. While playing hide-and-seek in an old house, Joanna hears a child sobbing and comes into a bedroom where she meets a little boy named Francis Kent whose sister Constance is mean to him. Joanna comforts the child, and then leaves him when he is asleep. Then she finds the others from the party and learns that Francis was killed by Constance over 80 years before. Literature Mary Elizabeth Braddon used elements of the case in Lady Audley's Secret (1862). Wilkie Collins used elements of the case in The Moonstone (1868). Charles Dickens based the flight of Helena Landless in The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) on Kent's early life. Elbur Ford's novel Such Bitter Business (1953), was based on Constance Kent. Published in the U.S. in 1954 under the title Evil in the House. Elbur Ford is a pen name of Eleanor Hibbert Norah Lofts' novel Out of the Dark (1978), in which Constance is called Charlotte Cornwall, is based on the murder case as recounted here. Joan Aiken's novel The Weeping Ash culminates in a scenario with similar elements to the case, identifying the father as the culprit. The Kent case plays a central role in William Trevor's novel Other People's Worlds (1980) Francis King's novel Act of Darkness (1983) is a fictional re-imagining of the Constance Kent case, transferring the setting to 1930's India. James Friel's novel Taking the Veil (1989) is inspired by Kent's life. Sharyn McCrumb's novel Missing Susan (1991) refers to this case. In Elly Griffiths' sixth Ruth Galloway novel, The Outcast Dead (2014), detectives Tim and Judy note the similarities between a child abduction case they are assigned to and this case. Andrew Forrester examined the case in fictional form, in his 1864 short story collection “The Female Detective”. The story is “Murder, or No Murder”. Agatha Christie, in her novel The Clocks (1963), has